Hi, anyone know how to preload a movie? Not in the standard sense, though: I want to load several movies dynamically but not let them appear until I attach them.
The reason for this is I’m making a sort of rpg game engine (“oh god, not another one”?), and I want to be able to let other people make a “chapter” without having to do anything in flash. There’ll be a parser for this “manuscript”, that will load backgrounds, dialogue and sprite positions.
One concern is I want to be able to load an entire chapter at the beginning at once, including their custom backgrounds (not sprites, as they’re my characters ;)), they only need to specify the filenames in the “manuscript”. Unfortunately, loadMovie instantly places a movieclip onto the stage so there’s the problem. I could hide them, I guess, but will that be good memory-wise? I’m expecting around 10 or more 150 kb images.
